5th generation uber team

[psycho hand]

I made an uber team for dream world that has gotton a fair amount of wins. But I want to win more often. So, I have turned to you guys!

The Team

Penumbra (Darkrai) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Bad Dreams
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 HP
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Taunt
- Dark Void
- Dark Pulse
- Nasty Plot

My anti-lead. I use taunt unless the opponent looks like it has an attacking lead, in which I would use dark void right off the bat. After that, I set up nasty plot, raising my special attack to sweep. He will defeat a lot before he faints. The only attacking move he has (and needs, due to the abundance of psychic types in the tier) is dark void.

Poltergeist (Giratina-O) @ Griseous Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Modest Nature (+ SAtk, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Substitute
- Shadow Ball
- Aura Sphere

Giratina is the spin blocker and stall breaker (along with dialga). He is hard to defeat, what with having 150 / 100 / 100 defenses. He is also very strong, having 120 / 120 offenses. So what does that add up too? SubCM! Giratina can come in after a pokemon has been stalled out by a stallmon, set up a sub, and set up calm minds while being safe from being poisened or leech seeded to death.once he sets up, he can take out almost anything due to having two moves with almost unresisted coverage. Giratina also has some good synergy with dialga, as Giratina can take moves that dialga hates (ground, fighting) and dialga takes most moves giratina doesn't like (ghost, dark, and, to an extent, ice and dragon).

Godzilla (Groudon) @ Life Orb
Trait: Drought
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 Def
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Rock Polish
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge

groudon is usually the first pokemon wobbuffet will allow to set up, and he usually sets up rock polish first, then sets up swords dance. After those two, he becomes a nearly unstoppable sweeper, only being able to be stopped by... well... MAYBE ferrothorn. Stonequake gets nearly unresisted coverage (like ghost/dark and fighting), so there really isn't much more to say.

Bob (Wobbuffet) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Shadow Tag
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Safeguard
- Counter
- Mirror Coat
- Encore

This troll. He can murder any pokemon he likes, or help another pokemon murder them for him. Put more specifically, counter takes care of physical sweepers, mirror coat takes care of special sweepers, safeguard counters darkrai, and encore turns other pokemon into set-up bait.

'Nuff said.

Tick-Tock (Dialga) @ Expert Belt
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 SAtk / 4 Spd
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Outrage
- Brick Break
- Fire Blast
- Thunder

Along with Giratina, and having great synergy with him, dialga is my stallbreaker/mixed attacker. Outrage is a great stab move and takes care of a majority of the metagame, while brick break takes care of a common special wall in ubers, blissy (and chansey). Fire blast takes care of ferrothorn and forretress (who otherwise laugh at dialga) and thunder takes care of kyogre.

I AM GOD! (Arceus) @ Life Orb
Trait: Multitype
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 HP
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- ExtremeSpeed
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake

This is my second swords dance sweeper, Xtremekiller arceus. Is there anything wrong? Oh, many claim it's a noob pokemon. Well, it has it's counters. Anyway, onto the set. Wobby provides an opportunity with encore, I switch in to arceus and set up swords dance. Then I wreak havoc with an almost unresisted stonequake and STAB extremespeed.

Things I'm unsure about

1. How many people pay atention to the item clause.



I can't tell how good this team really is from testing, because so many people RQ when darkrai sets up...

 

[Hyperion64]

I would give giratina dragon tail over substitute. As for dialga, you could change the item to choice scarf.

 

[King Arceus]

While your current Darkrai set is ok, I'd consider changing Taunt to Focus Blast. This allows it to take on Dialga which is something few Pokemon can actually do. If their lead was Dialga you have Dark Void, if it isn't, you use Dark Void still. The following turn you use Nasty Plot then you are able to OHKO most of the metagame. Mewtwo will be faster and always OHKO's with Aura Sphere if it holds Life Orb.

Groudon is where I can see problems. 252 Speed is more than necessary. The only way it could even make a difference is if you ran a jolly nature with 200 EVs in Speed. That would allow you to outpace scarf Skymin that is timid and Scarf Darkrai after Rock Polish. I believe most Scarf Skymin would run Modest nature anyway, meaning you would need 265 Speed before Rock Polish to outpace them. This is done by placing 196 EVs in Speed. This also allows you to place 60 EVs in HP. The Swords Dance set hits so hard when it gets pulled off, Life Orb is not necessary. Leftovers would be a better replacement because then your sweep won't end by recoil and it makes it easier to set up. I prefer not having Swords Dance because I just find it to be harder to set up.

Dialga I believe also doesn't have an optimal moveset. While it could perform in rain or shine, if you consider that Groudon changes the weather to sun, remember Thunder's accuracy drops to 50% only. Thunderbolt will still have 100 accuracy. It does have slightly less power, but being able to guarantee a hit is important too. Stealth Rock is another option you could do instead of Thunder. Stealth Rock can affect many 2HKOs and turn them into OHKOs if you use Life Orb on the Groudon without needing Swords Dance. This also softens Kyogre's Water Spout that otherwise destroys your team. It would take 2 switches to really stop it if you can't strike before it. One switch would be to Groudon then you would need to switch to either Giratina or more preferably, Dialga.

Arceus doesn't need a speed boosting nature for his Swords Dance set. Adamant has more use because you have Extreme Speed. The actual amount of Speed EVs to put in depends on how defensive you want Arceus to be and what you want to outpace. 228 EVs will let you outpace jolly Garchomp while 212 lets you outpace all base 100s. 124 lets you outpace base 90s which include Zekrom, Reshiram, Kyogre, and Groudon. I prefer Leftovers on Arceus, but its up to you.

1. How many people pay atention to the item clause.

Item clause is not a competitive battling standard. It is only standard in Nintendo Events such as the Video Game Championships.